| International Standard Book Number |
9781761474224 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316595384 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316595381 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
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| Title Statement |
Ironwood : a Catalina novel bk. 2 / Michael Connelly.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2026.
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| Physical Description |
325 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Catalina ; bk. 02
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| Series Statement |
Detective Stilwell
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| General Note |
Detective Stilwell bk. 2
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| Summary, Etc. |
Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that Catalina Island is no paradise, but it usually stays blissfully separated from the troubles of Los Angeles County. Now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a top from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped, and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. Shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility for the dangerous operation. But he is determined to find out who brought deadly violence to his island, and he begins a secret investigation into the drug deal gone wrong. Under orders to keep a low profile, he finds an abandoned backpack and traces it to a woman who disappeared while hiking on the island four years ago. Why, then, was it turned in to the substation only two months back? Thoroughly intrigued, he follows the mystery all the way to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit and Detective Renee Ballard. Stilwell and Ballard work the case from both sides of the channel and soon realize they are on the trail of a criminal who revels in taunting the authorities. Meanwhile, frustrated at being shut out of his own investigation, Stilwell risks his already shaky standing in the department to pursue a case whose reach is wider than he ever imagined. Front book flap.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Ballard, Renee (Fictitious character) Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Stilwell, Detective Sergeant Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Criminal investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Islands Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Detectives Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Drugs Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Police California Los Angeles Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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